Open information regarding casualties is relatively rare.
But now, President Zelensky has decided to reveal that roughly 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.
In a post on social media, he said 370,000 injuries had been reported (although this figure included multiple wounds from the same soldier).
He also claimed that 198,000 Russian soldiers had been killed and a further 550,000 wounded – nothing new to report, although the decision to publicize one’s own losses represents a novelty, likely a response to Donald Trump criticizing Ukraine on social media for what he claimed to be losses of 400,000 soldiers.
Figures have not been officially verified, but Russia disputes them, insisting that Ukrainian defeat is much greater than Russian losses.
In February, Zelensky put Ukrainian deaths at 31,000.
The UK’s estimates suggest that Russia suffering more casualties in November 2024 than in any other month of the war – even losing over 2000 men in a single day.
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